Two Days: New Jersey Super Bowl parties and other non-game events

They'll be partying all day long in East Rutherford Sunday, and not just at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

East Rutherford's own celebration — Meadowlands Tailgate Party 2014 — will have a beer garden, cannoli-eating contest, 12 food trucks, boardwalk-style games, as well as music from The Nerds and BStreetBand, a Bruce Springsteen tribute act. The tailgate, centered at Park and Railroad avenues, starts at noon and runs until 4:30 p.m. Admission $10, children under 12 free.

Tickets available ahead of time for $8 at East Rutherford Borough Hall (One Everett Place), as well as New Park Tavern (250 Park Ave.), Blarney Station (258 Park Ave.), The Water Store (251 Paterson Ave.) and Annabella's (246 Hackensack St). Visit thebiggameexperience.com for more information.

— Amy Kuperinsky

Winter Blast

The Dark Side of the Moo will be among the food trucks at Winter Blast. Peter Genovese/The Star-Ledger

The three-day event, which wraps up today, features hockey games, open skating, tug-of-war, a Field Station: Dinosaurs hadrosaurus, ice sculptures, live graffiti art, bands, a beer garden, vendor village, food trucks, and if all that weren't enough, an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for largest "foot-ball'' of mozzarella.

A one-day adult pass is $15. Children 10 and under are free. The activities will take place in Buchmuller Park; Wilson Street and First Avenue will be closed to traffic to make room for the beer garden and food trucks.

Rapper Joe Budden will trade the mic for a basketball and the recording studio for the basketball court today as he plays in a gridiron celebrity charity game. The event promises more than two dozen celebrities including Dez Bryant of the Dallas Cowboys and Jay Ellis from "The Game." Tip off is at 3 p.m. at The City College of New York, 138th Street in Manhattan; visit footballhoops.com.

— Janelle Griffith

Coach Bill Courtney at left, with O.C. Brown in the Oscar-winning documentary 'Undefeated.' The film will be screened as part of Montclair's Super Bowl festivities, with an appearance from Courtney. Weinstein Company

'Undefeated'

In the spirit of the big game, organizers of the Montclair Film Festival have put together a screening of the 2011 Oscar-winning documentary "Undefeated," which follows the Manassas Tigers, a high school football team in Memphis, Tenn.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with its subject, coach Bill Courtney, moderated by filmmaker, writer and critic Nelson George.

Former Giants player Stephen Baker, 'Touchdown Maker,' (No. 85 up top in the photo), will come to an event in East Hanover sponsored by WDHA. Star-Ledger file photo

Want to meet a Super Bowl champion?

WDHA's "Big Game Game Day" pre-game party will have former Giants wide receiver Stephen Baker ("The Touchdown Maker"), who will sign autographs. Baker played for the Giants in 1991 for Super Bowl XXV, when the team bested the Buffalo Bills. There will also be a poker tournament and prizes.

Don't plan to spend all day Sunday getting ready for the game? The Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel appears at Kean University at 4 p.m. with pianist Roman Rabinovich and conductor Boguslaw Dawidow in a program that includes two of classical music's most powerful and popular works, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. The concert begins at 4 p.m. at 1000 Morris Ave., Union. Tickets are $30, $20 for children, students and seniors. Call (908) 737-SHOW or visit keanstage.com

— Ronni Reich

Theater

If football isn't your kind of theater, visit Luna Stage in West Orange for the first performances of Athol Fugard's "'Master Harold'...and the boys." The play deals with racial relations and a boy's coming of age in South Africa during apartheid. Reginald L. Douglas, a fellow at New York Theater Workshop, directs a cast that includes local actors Jamil Mangan of Newark, Tony Knotts of Clifton and Beethoven Oden of New York.

Preview performances take place tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 3 p.m. The show officially opens Feb. 7 and runs through March 2 at 555 Valley Rd. Tickets are $25-$35, call (973) 395-5551 or visit lunastage.org.